Definition of Moderate

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Moderate

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.

Limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.

Not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate Calvinist.

Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.

Limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.

Limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.

Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.

One of a party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.

To restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.

To preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.

To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.

To preside as a moderator.

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Moderate Quotations

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.
Louis Farrakhan

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
Jacques Derrida

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
Tony Campolo

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Meriwether Lewis

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xun Zi

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Antonin Scalia

Moderate Translations

moderate in Afrikaans is matig
moderate in Dutch is gematigd, bescheiden, matig
moderate in Latin is modica, aliquanta, modestus, parcus, mediocris
moderate in Portuguese is moderado
moderate in Spanish is modico

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